Oral Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“What diplomatic steps his Department has taken to help ensure media freedom for domestic and international journalists in Belarus.”
Tabled: 2 September 2020Answered: 8 September 2020
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris)
The hon. Gentleman heard the Home Secretary’s point on the convention, but it is clear that gimmicks such as Rwanda do not work—£700 million for merely four volunteers to go. What works is effective processing, quick decisions and quick removals. That is what we will get under this Government, and it is what we do not get from those who carp from the Opposition Benches.